Ew. Research Methods?
Systematic processes, frameworks, and steps or procedures that are used to conduct social science research
What are research methods?
Norms for behavior distinguishing what is and is not acceptable moral behavior in society
What are ethics?
Research that provides explanations about a topic by addressing questions such as, “Why is it?” “How is it?” “What is the effect of it?” “What causes it?” and “What predicts it?”
What is explanatory research?
A process of defining what is meant by a particular concept
What is conceptualization?
Selecting a subset of elements from the larger population
What is a sample?
Guides research designed to increase understanding and generate knowledge about a topic
What is a research question?
The principles of the Belmont Report
What are beneficence, justice, and respect for persons?
A committee that reviews many elements of the proposed research and has the authority to approve, require modifications, or disapprove any proposed research
What is the Internal Review Board committee (IRB)?
Level of measurement that indicates that attributes of a measure have an inherent order to them. A level of measurement in which attributes can be rank-ordered.
What is ordinal?
The difference between sample statistics and population parameters.
What is the sampling error?
A powerful source of non-scientific and non-research based knowledge
What is personal experience?
A requirement for subjects who voluntarily participate in a study after receiving sufficient information about the experiment, and expectations
What is informed consent?
Those that receive an additional layer of review when proposed to participate in research
What is a vulnerable population?
Studying the consumption of alcohol on midterm grades. Midterm grades is the ___________?
What is the dependent variable?
Dr. Jones is interested in learning whether bystander intervention programs affect fraternity attitudes toward stopping violence. The unit of analysis is ________.
What are groups/organizations?
Information that takes a variety of forms, such as words, observations, measurements, descriptions, and numbers. The individual pieces of information or evidence gathered, analyzed, and used to answer the research question.
Researchers are obligated to do no harm, to maximize possible benefits and to minimize possible harms to all participants in a study
What is beneficence?
Fraud and theft of another person’s words, thoughts, ideas, or other creations (e.g., songs, artwork), and the presentation of that material as one’s own.
What is plagiarism?
Type of variable that is believed to influence- be associated with- or cause the variation in an outcome or dependent variable
What is an independent variable?
Two major types of sampling
What are probability and non-probability sampling?
The typical stages of research
What are develop a research question; conduct a literature review; design the research; collect data; select an analytic approach; generate findings, conclusions, and policy implications?
It was created in 1947 and outlines the ethical principles that guide research. It identifies ten points of guidance.
What is the Nuremberg code?
Published articles that go through a rigorous process before being published in an academic journal. These are an excellent source of information used in a literature review.
What are peer-reviewed journal articles?
When the conclusions of the research are based on the interpretations of the investigator (i.e., observations, interviews), _____ research has been employed. However, if the conclusions are based upon statistical analyses of the data (i.e., used to quantify a topic), _____ research has been employed.
What is qualitative data; quantitative data?
Dr. Wright is interested in asking students about their perceptions of the police. He designs a survey and distributes it to students at his university where he collects his data. What type of sample is this?
What is convenience sampling?